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Google's pixel buds are here and we've
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had them for a little bit and full
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review is coming but teaser everyone
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loves them so far they are great for all
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kinds of things but they have a critical
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flaw right now for me and for a lot of
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people that I've talked to and that's
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gaming latency but there's hope on the
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horizon and I want to show you why so
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let me back up just a little bit back
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when Google announced the original
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version of the pixel buds I really hoped
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at that point in time that they were
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launching something that would work
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really well with their ecosystem because
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ultimately as wireless earbuds have kind
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of evolved I've been on the hunt for a
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set that not only send a great video and
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not from just for music but also for
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gaming latency I really wanted to be
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able to just put in wireless earbuds and
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play a game without things being
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stuttery or laggy because it's just
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difficult to play games whenever the
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sound is a half-second or a full second
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behind what's on the screen so I've
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really been trying to find that perfect
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set of earbuds and it's led me to well
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this and and I've returned or sold or
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given away other ones but on the table
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in front of me are the air pods razors
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truly wireless hammerhead earbuds the
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original pixel buds and the new pixel
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buds and the reason I have all these all
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circles around gaming I mean they're all
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fine for listening to you know videos
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and music and to be honest with you at
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this point right now if I were going to
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pick any of them for just that taking
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phone calls that kind of stuff far and
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away the pixel buds are the best version
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of that earbud however when we talk
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about gaming latency and actually like
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playing pubs year Call of Duty mobile
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all of a sudden these become the worst
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selection here they have the most lag
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and the most latency and are completely
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unusable with gaming and so while I was
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waiting the six months for the pixel
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buds to actually show up I started
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trying some different things and Razer
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came out with their ear buds and we did
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a whole review on these and why they
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took the place of my ear pods in my
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pocket because ultimately with these I
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could turn him into a gaming mode and
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all the latency just kind of went away
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and it didn't have to be with an Android
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iPad or whatever that it just took
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latency away for everything and so that
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made me start thinking hey you know if
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latency can go away with these there is
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no latency with air pods when you're
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dealing with iOS devices it's possible
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it's possible to get this latency out
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and that led me to doing some research
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and finding that Google actually updated
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the original pixel pods back in June of
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2019 and the update to the firmware was
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supposed to remove gaming latency and I
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had since gotten rid of mine I didn't
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like these ear buds at all and I don't
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think many people did but Google still
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took the time and had the ability to
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update them so we went out and bought
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some and we wanted to see are these
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actually going to remove gaming latency
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long story short once we got them in got
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em chars and let them take their
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firmware update yeah the gaming latency
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completely went away on them and they're
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actually when I tested them with the
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razor's right next to them in the same
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game kind of going back and forth
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between the two the latency is actually
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the exact same as the razor's are in
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their gaming mode so what this tells me
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is Google has the ability to remove
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latency from their earbuds and not only
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do they have the ability they've done it
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on older earbuds that probably not a lot
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of people bought they took the time to
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figure out how to make it work
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issued a firmware upgrade and changed
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how these things work whenever you're
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playing games so that tells me that
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there's no reason that these that our
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Bluetooth 5.0 versus these that our
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Bluetooth 4.2 won't be able to do the
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same thing in one of the upcoming
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feature drops that we're supposed to see
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for these earbuds there's literally
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nothing stopping Google from doing this
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they have the ability they have the
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reason to I mean these things are wildly
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popular at this point so I don't see any
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future where Google doesn't issue a
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firmware update for the new pixel buds
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that allow them to reduce the latency
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completely across the board and allow
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these to really become like my one go to
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ear buds like I could just push all
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these aside and this can be it I want to
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listen to music great want to take a
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phone call great want to watch a video
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great want to play a game great these
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things will work for everything they're
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small they fit in a pocket and if Google
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can remove or when they do remove this
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really this one bug in the ointment for
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me as a gamer as a person who uses you
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know mobile technology all the time then
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these easily become the best earbuds you
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can buy regardless of manufacturer and I
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think that's something Google wants to
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do I think they can do it and I think
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they are going to do it probably in the
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near future because that's it for this
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